Rafael Sabatini

He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.

Regret of neglected opportunity is the worst hell that a living soul can inhabit.

A deadly sin that brings no evil material sequel to the satisfaction afforded by committing it is one thing. A deadly sin that gives you the stomach ache is quite another.

Speed will follow when the mechanism of the movements is more assured.

If the windmill should prove too formidable, said he, from the threshold, I may see what can be done with the wind.

What a man dares to do he should dare to confess unless he is a coward.